Questions and answers
Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
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Question reference: S6W-28072
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 19 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S6F-03197 by Kate Forbes on 6 June 2024, in relation to the reported concerns expressed about delays in holding fatal accident inquiries, whether it will provide further details of the timing of any statement to the Parliament by the Law Officers.
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Question reference: S6O-03562
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the application of the principles in the Scottish Public Finance Manual, what its position is on whether the reported estimated cost of £3.56 million for refurbishment to decarbonise the Procurator Fiscal’s Office in Elgin represents value for money, in light of the property being valued at £275,000 in March 2022.
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Question reference: S6O-03530
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether there are excessive delays in holding fatal accident inquiries.
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Question reference: S6W-27298
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 21 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will withdraw the Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-27297
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 20 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will drop its proposed changes to deer management, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-27296
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 20 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will remove the requirements relating to compulsory compliance with minimum energy efficiency and the installation of decarbonised heating systems from its proposed Heat in Buildings Bill, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-27294
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 15 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will remove the ban on wood burning stoves in new build homes, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-27295
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 14 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will repeal the short-term lets regulations, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6T-01989
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 May 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in the event that the reported legal action raised against it by Biffa and any potential actions by other companies that incurred expenditure in expectation of the Deposit Return Scheme being implemented are successful and lead to any financial losses, whether it will consider suing the UK Government in respect of any such losses, in light of its reported position that the UK Government is responsible for the scheme not proceeding in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-26861
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-26188 by Angela Constance on 15 April 2024, in the event that the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill does not apply to Scotland, what consideration it is giving to how Scottish legislation would define any case involving the Horizon system in relation to which a person who was wrongfully convicted in Scotland should be exonerated, and whether it will propose a parliamentary debate on the issues arising from the Post Office Horizon system in Scotland following a ministerial update to the Parliament.
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